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Scripture as Literature

Author	Frank Lewis
Title of item	Scripture as Literature
Subtitle of item	Sifting through the layers of the text
Volume	7
Parent publication	Bahá'í Studies Review
Publisher of this ed.	London: Association for Bahá'í Studies of English-Speaking Europe
Date of this edition	1997
Language	English
Permission	author and publisher
Posted	1998 by Jonah Winters
Formatted	1998 by Chris Manvell
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/lewis_scripture_literature
Abstract	Literary and religious antecedents to some of the styles and genres of Bahá'í scripture.
Notes	Paper originally delivered at a the Irfan Colloquium at Wilmette, Illinois, 1993. See irfancolloquia.org/2/lewis_scripture. Later re-published in Reason and Revelation: Studies in Bábí and Bahá'í History vol. 13.
Tags	Arabic literature; Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Literature (general); Persian literature; Puppet show; Style (general)
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Edit quality	high: carefully proofread and edited
Format quality	high: well formatted
Last edited	1998. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs.

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